Antígona González
10 best books like Antígona González (Sara Uribe): Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems, Shakespeare Stories, Árbol de Diana, The Republic of Poetry: Poems, Mornings in Mexico, The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, Purgatory, The Farm in the Green Mountains, Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry, Cuaderno de campo
| Author | Pablo Neruda |
| ISBN | 0807064890 |
This book took me a long time to finish, because I took full advantage of the fact that it had the original Spanish as well as an English translation for each poem. I really like that set-up, which lets me read the parts I can handle in Spanish, but still be able to understand those that are beyond my capabilities....
| Author | Leon Garfield |
| ISBN | 0395861403 |
By skillfully weaving his own prose with Shakespeare's language, Leon Garfield has refashioned twelve of the Elizabethan playwright's most memorable dramas into stories, capturing all the richness of the characters, plot, mood, and setting. This format will delight both those who know the great...
Prologado por Octavio Paz, esta obra supuso el reconocimiento definitivo de la autora por parte de la crítica. Los poemas son mayoritariamente cortos, todos en verso libre, plagados de contradicciones y sugerencias a veces increíbles por su lucidez. La soledad de la conciencia, del ser humano,...
| Author | Martín Espada |
| ISBN | 0393062562 |
The Republic of Poetry
The Republic of Poetry
by Martín Espada
Hardcover 96 pages
W.W. Norton, October, 2006
One cannot read the title to Martín Espada’s new book, The Republic of Poetry without recalling Plato’s banning of poets from his republic due...
| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 1845118685 |
Much of D.H. Lawrence's life was defined by his passion for travel and it was those wanderings that gave life to some of his greatest novels. In the 1920s Lawrence travelled several times to Mexico, where he was fascinated by the clash of beauty and brutality, purity and darkness that he observed. The...
| Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
| ISBN | 0061583243 |
When your thoughts
don’t take you too far
and you are silent
as you tremble
and gaze
at the trellis of your hands.
When the chariot of your imagination
does not lead you into tunnels
lit up with apprehensions
and lightnings
as you remain silent
and...
| Author | Raúl Zurita |
| ISBN | 0520259734 |
Raúl Zurita’s Purgatory, a landmark in contemporary Latin American poetry, records the physical, cultural, and spiritual violence perpetrated against the Chilean people under Pinochet’s military dictatorship (1973–1990) in the fiercely inventive voice of a postmodern master. This...
| Author | Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer |
| ISBN | 0933050461 |
The Farm in the Green Mountains is the story of a family finding home halfway across the world from their homeland.
Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband, the playwright Carl Zuckmayer, lived at the heart of intellectual life in Weimar, Germany, counting among their circle Stefan Zweig, Alma...
| Author | Essex Hemphill |
| ISBN | 1573441015 |
I recently found out about Essex Hemphill while I was frontlisting up-coming titles. In case you also didn't know, he was a black, gay poet and activist in the 80s and 90s who died from AIDS in the mid 90s. I found out that one of his most well known works was Ceremonies and of course, it's out of print. But my...
"En este libro se anota la vida: la que se recuerda y se ha perdido, la que nos ha forjado en sangre y en tierra, la que aguarda en la observación del día a día. María Sánchez ha afrontado en Cuaderno de campo una reflexión sobre la familia, y cómo nos construye, y sobre el cuerpo, y cómo nos acuna o nos...
| Author | Dunya Mikhail |
| ISBN | 0811216217 |
Revolutionary poetry by an exiled Iraqi woman. Winner of a 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award. "Yesterday I lost a country," Dunya Mikhail writes in The War Works Hard, a revolutionary work by an exiled Iraqi poether first to appear in English. Amidst the ongoing atrocities in Iraq, here is an important...
| Author | Andrés Neuman |
| ISBN | 8420406082 |
Un cruce entre la narrativa más actual y la crónica relámpago. Una visión literaria, en tiempo real, de la geografía entera del español.
«Cuando me comunicaron el itinerario de la gira del Premio Alfaguara, lamenté no tener más tiempo para ver cada lugar. Pero después pensé: ¿no...
I Athena Farrokhzads diktsamling Vitsvit turneras utsagor om våld och vithet, i en dialog mellan familjemedlemmar som är bundna till varandra genom revolutionens och migrationens erfarenhet. Diktjaget kommer endast till tals genom de citat som hon placerat i familjens munnar, citat där hon...
| Author | Erika L. Sánchez |
| ISBN | 1555977782 |
An award-winning and hard-hitting new voice in contemporary American poetry
The first time I ever came the light was weak and carnivorous.
I covered my eyes and the night cleared its dumb throat.
I heard my mother wringing her hands the next morning.
Of course I put...
| Author | Patricia Smith |
| ISBN | 1566892996 |
Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in Poetry
Finalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams Award
Winner of 2014 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
"Patricia Smith is writing some of the best poetry in America today. Ms Smith’s new book, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, is just beautiful—and...
A young woman is instructed by her boss to write a letter to an older man. His reply begins an enigmatic but passionate love affair conducted entirely in letters. Until, that is, his letters stop coming.
But did the letters ever reach their intended recipient? Only the teenage Afaf, who works...
| Author | Edward O. Wilson |
| ISBN | 1934137723 |
World Literature Today
Editor’s Pick
“Enchanting. . . . The Poetic Species is a wonderful read in its entirety, short yet infinitely simulating.” —MARIA POPOVA, Brain Pickings
In this shimmering conversation (the outgrowth of an event co-sponsored by the American...
| Author | Gabrielle Roy |
| ISBN | 2890525775 |
Πραγματικά το απόλαυσα να διαβάζω αυτές τις νουβέλλες της Ροά. Ήταν μια πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα πρώτη επαφή με τον Καναδά. Μέσα από τα μάτια της συγγραφέως, την...
الواحد يصير خفيفاً عند بلوغه هذه الأنحاء. يعطي قدرات. يفقد آلامه الجسمانية. في أحد الممرات رأيت الحريري قاعداً عشرين ورقة، وكلما انتهى منها عاد يقرأها من...
The Mountain and the Wall
| Author | Alisa Ganieva |
| ISBN | 1941920152 |
"Never before has Russian literature produced such an honest and complete picture of today's Caucasus."—Kommersant Weekend (Russia)
"The Mountain and the Wall is a major event in contemporary Russian literature."—Ulrich M. Schmid, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Germany)
This...
Cronica da Casa Assassinada
| Author | Lúcio Cardoso |
| ISBN | 8400071271 |
Lúcio Cardoso’s 1959 novel—a true modern classic—tells the story of a traditional family’s slippage into social and moral decline. Employing a variety of narrative devices—including letters, diaries, memoirs, statements, confessions, and accounts penned by the various characters—the...
